It is almost 17 years since the fall of communist East Germany, but still the regime is commemorated in thousands of street names all over the region. Those who fought the dictatorship, on the ...

The FDJ disappeared from Germany's political map after reunification in 1990. ... (The Left), formed when leftist parties from western Germany merged with what was the Communist Party in the east.

Germany’s parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising in the Communist east that was brutally crushed by its Soviet-backed dictatorship.

For the first time, two former citizens of communist East Germany will hold the country’s top posts. Angela Merkel was a trailblazer when she became chancellor in 2005, ...

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